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Florence + The Machine will release their fifth album, called Dance Fever, on May 13th. Their new single, called "My Love," was released yesterday (Thursday, March 10th) along with a video directed by Autumn de Wilde.

Dance Fever was recorded in London over the course of the pandemic.

According to a release, "just before the pandemic, Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people—sometimes thousands—danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death. The imagery resonated with Florence, who had been touring nonstop for more than a decade, and in lockdown felt oddly prescient."

Dance Fever was produced by Florence, Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley of Glass Animals.

Machine Gun Kelly fired back after a TikTok user who posted a video and claimed Kelly didn't actually play his own guitar during performances. He pointed out what he called a "kill switch" feature on the rocker's pink Schecter guitar and said that's how he turned off the sound.

MGK posted his own video in response and explained how the person had reverse engineered the video to look like that. He also included the caption, "This guy flipped the kill switch to the opposite direction for his video. Go buy the guitar and see for yourself."

He asked the guy point blank, why he would even lie about something like that? At last check, MGK had not gotten a response back.

TL;DR:

• Machine Gun Kelly fired back after a TikTok user who claimed Kelly didn't play his own guitar.
• He asked the guy point blank, why he would even lie about something like that? At last check, MGK had not gotten a response back.

Ozzy, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne are all set to appear in Yungblud's new video for the funeral. Yungblud shared behnd the scenes footage from the video where he was posing with Ozzy and Sharon. He captioned the pic, "Bringin some mates to my funeral…"

Yungblud announced the new single last Saturday (March 5th) in a handwritten message, which read, "To whom this may concern. For those I let down I'm sorry, for those who let me down, f*ck you but I forgive you. You are cordially and graciously invited to my funeral."

Gene Simmons equated bands continuing to play Russia with artists who accepted gigs in apartheid-era South Africa. TMZ caught up with the Kiss co-founder who made it clear, in light of what's happening across the globe, Russia is not the place to be performing: "The problem is, if a Western band plays Russia it gives credence. . . a political win for Putin's outright lies. I would recommend nobody goes there. Just shut it down. Stop drinking Russian vodka. Just stop it."

Simmons went on to explain that honoring gigs in Russia -- or accepting new bookings there -- will only do damage in the long run: "They're gonna get a lot of pushback from their own fans. I mean, we were faced with the similar problem in Botswana in the days of apartheid. We were offered millions of dollars and we said, 'No, we can't go there because if a Western band goes there, you're saying it's okay for apartheid and, of course, all the racism and the lack of justice.' So, we said no. There were some bands that went and, y'know, they paid the price; their fans turned on them."

Kiss will kick off an eight-date South American run on April 20th in Santiago, Chile's Movistar Arena.

Deftones have officially parted ways with bassist Sergio Vega. Vega confirmed the news with a video statement, saying, "I didn't want to have to make a video about this, but after the recent band photo posted on Deftones‘, Spotify, I feel the need to clear the air. I'm not very good at this. So I wrote out a statement and I will read it to you now."

Vega went on to talk about his friendship with the Deftones, which goes back to 1995. After working with the band off and on for years he had asked repeatedly about becoming a permanant member.

He explained, "I had worked with the band for 12 years, and at the start of every album cycle, I asked about becoming an official member, but the contract would be improved instead. COVID was a breaking point for a lot of people. And I started to question my place In the band, and the future that I wanted for my career. I really started to need something stable, because at that point, my contract with them was canceled. One day I got a call from the guys about an internal band situation, and they asked me if I was solid, and that I would have to fly out to LA to help work it out. Right away."

He continued, "I said, Of course, I was all in, and we can handle my situation later. But I can't go back to my old contract. Our respective management had a conversation to discuss a new contract, and they offered me the same deal. At that point. It was clear there was no opportunity for growth for me. So I declined the offer. And then I call the guys immediately to see where the miscommunication was to resolve it. But there was no response."

He added, "A couple of days later, I received an email from their lawyer that their offer was withdrawn, and that they wished me the best. So I left the band in early last year, and since then, I've been focused on my band Quicksand, as well as working as a producer and writer for other artists and projects. And I'm mentioning this because there was some speculation about me selling my gear and quitting music altogether."

Tenacious D, the Jack Black and Kyle Gass duo has added a fall leg to their U.S. tour.

The new string of shows will kick off on September 9th in Wilmington, North Carolina, and includes stops in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. In all, 10 new dates have been added.

The tour serves as a belated 20th anniversary celebration of their 2001 self-titled debut album.

Tickets go on sale Friday, (March 11).

TL;DR:

• Tenacious D added a fall leg to their U.S. tour.
• It will kick off on September 9th in Wilmington, North Carolina.
• Tickets go on sale Friday, (March 11).

John Oates of Hall & Oates fame is heading out on a seven-date acoustic run next week. Oates and collaborator Guthrie Trapp will play a string of East Coast shows taking in stops in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, and Rhode Island.

Oates spoke about his acoustic American-styled solo gigs, telling McCall.com: "This show gives me an opportunity to show a side of myself that I don't think a lot of people really know. Everyone knows me from Hall & Oates, the MTV videos, and big hits, and that's great. But I had a whole musical life before I met Daryl Hall, and this is my sweet spot.

He went on to say, "This is the kind of music that I was making as a kid. it's very deeply ingrained in my musical DNA, and these types of shows give me a chance to showcase that side of my music career."

Oates explained that acoustic-based music was part of the ingredients he brought to the initial Hall & Oates mix: "I think that any time you have a collaboration between two or more people, it's always going to be more than the sum of its parts. I was making this kind of music, Daryl was classically trained and he was doing other things -- singing doo-wop on the street corner, you know, that kind of thing. I think we both brought our individual musical personalities together, and what evolved was what became Hall & Oates."

John Oates admitted that his current music, with its scaled back sound and folk influences, he's finally truly showing his musical stripes: "Now that I've had a chance to establish myself and people see how committed I am to it, it's totally being accepted and I think for the first time people are actually seeing my true musical personality."

JUST ANNOUNCED: John Oates tour dates (subject to change):

March 16 - Phoenixville, PA - The Colonial Theatre
March 18 - Laconia, NH - Colonial Theatre Laconia
March 19 - Norwood, MA - The Norwood Theatre
March 20 - Ridgefield, CT - The Ridgefield Playhouse
March 22 - New York, NY - Sony Hall
March 24 - Bethesda, MD - Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club
March 26 - Newport, RI - Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center

My Chemical Romance has added 14 new stops to their upcoming reunion tour.

The band announced Wednesday (March 9th) that The North American tour dates will kick off on Aug. 20th in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and include stops in Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Oregon.

Tickets for the new dates and additional tickets for their previously sold-out North American shows go on sale Friday (March 11th)

AC/DC has just announced "For Those About to Rock" Ale via Half Time Beverage. The new officially sanctioned beer is available to ship to 33 U.S. states. For a special limited time, the first 500 customers get a 12x15 print insert free with your purchase.

According to the press release:

AC/DC's For Those About to Rock Ale (5.9%) is cold fermented for the cool, crisp, refreshing flavor you'd expect from a seasonal Australian lager.

By combining traditional Australian brewing methods with native Aussie hops and cane sugar, the brewers have developed a highly drinkable beer that is true to its heritage, with a clean citrusy hop profile, a subtle malty sweetness, and a bright straw color.

Frontman Brian Johnson told us that despite the decades flying by, AC/DC stays the same: "There's one important thing I think is very important, is we've never changed. The band has never, ever changed. As one interviewer said to Angus (Young), 'Y'know, you've made 15 albums, Angus, and they're all the same.' And Angus said, 'That's not true. We've made 17 albums, and they're all the same.'"

Gavin Rossdale says that Bush's new album "should be done by May," and that he has written 18 songs for the project. He told May The Rock Be With You that he's been doing most of the work in the studio in his house, especially during the pandemic.

Rossdale said the band plans to get into the studio with a producer and at that time they'll "rearrange - hopefully not too much - the stuff I've done." He said, "We choose the songs we're gonna do. We either might use what I started, the tracks, or we might just try nixing them and doing it fresh. Each song will dictate that."

Bush have been in the studio for the last few days and are gearing up to head to Australia on tour with Cheap Trick and Stone Temple Pilots beginning on Friday (March 11th) in Maitland, AU. They plan to put the finishing touches on the album once they return at the end of the month.

As one of the founders of the grunge scene of the 90's with his band, Soundgarden, guitarist Kim Thayil told Lifeminute that Mudhoney is "the band that'd best embody grunge."

Thayil said, "Grunge was this generic label that referred to bands from Seattle in general, but also included bands like (The) Smashing Pumpkins, and Stone Temple Pilots get thrown in with grunge a lot – they were in LA and Pumpkins were in Chicago. There's certainly a cultural aesthetic that we shared with all those bands, but I think musically, the idea of a big power chord that's all fuzzy and distorted. I think Nirvana might embody the musical identity of grunge, maybe – the band that'd best embody grunge, I would think, is Mudhoney, Mudhoney‘s sound, and their style and attitude. That's, that's like the archetypal grunge band."

Tickets are already on sale for the Foo Fighters' six-city stadium tour of Australia and New Zealand. Between November 30th and December 17th, Dave Grohl and the gang will hit Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia -- along with stops in Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand.

NME reported the assorted Australian and New Zealand support acts opening the shows will include the Chats, Teenage Joans, Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers, Amyl And The Sniffers, and Dick Move. Britain's Hot Milk will also join the tour for three dates, marking their first-ever Down Under shows.

Dave Grohl told us a while back that it's vital for the band to change up the live show from night to night: "You've got to change it up. To keep things interesting musically, like, that's our lifeline, y'know, and to experiment and do things we've never done before. So we go out every night and we play all the loud, old rock stuff, we play all the loud new rock stuff, we play acoustic stuff, newer acoustic stuff, we just kind of change it up a little bit."

JUST ANNOUNCED: Foo Fighters Down Under tour dates (subject to change):

November 30 - Perth, Australia - HBF Park
December 4 - Melbourne, Australia - AAMI Park
December 10 - Brisbane, Australia - Suncorp Stadium
December 12 - Sydney, Australia - Accor Stadium
December 15 - Wellington, New Zealand - Sky Stadium
December 17 - Auckland, New Zealand - Western Springs Stadium

Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst reportedly had $3,000 of stuff stolen from his backyard. According to TMZ, a 30-year-old man unlawfully entered Durst's Los Angeles home through a gate and stole with such as a Tesla vehicle charger, a violin, among other things. Durst was not home at the time of the incident.

Cops were able to apprehend the bandit, due to Durst's security camera footage. The bandit was booked on charges of felony grand theft.

Alanis Morissette announced Tuesday (March 8th) that she will hit the road with Garbage this summer to celebrate 25 years of Jagged Little Pill.

The new tour dates will kick off in Ottawa on July 10th and hit cities including Toronto and Vancouver before wrapping in Mountain View, CA on August 6th.

Tickets go on sale Friday, March 11th. The singer will also release her new song, "Olive Branch" the same day.

Asking Alexandria and Nothing More are teaming to co-headline a spring of North America with special guests Atreyu and Eva Under Fire set to kick off on May 13th in Kansas City, MO. Tickets to the general public go on sale on Friday (March 11th) at 10 a.m. local time via ticketmaster.com.

Theprp.com reports that Asking Alexandria's Ben Bruce said, "This spring and summer we are finally getting back to doing what we love. We are finally hitting the road again and we will be bringing our biggest stage show yet with us . . . We have missed playing for you all so much and we can't wait to get back out there and see you all. We will be playing songs from the very beginning of our career all the way through to our latest album See What's On The Inside. See you all soon."

Rather than escalate his feud with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx is trying to explain his anger at Vedder's comments. During a recent chat with The New York Times, Eddie Vedder recalled working at a San Diego venue back in the 1980's when glam metal was at its peak. Vedder remembered, "I'd end up being at shows that I wouldn't have chosen to go to -- bands that monopolized late-'80s MTV. The metal bands that -- I'm trying to be nice -- I despised. 'Girls, Girls, Girls' and Mötley Crüe: F*** you. I hated it. I hated how it made the fellas look. I hated how it made the women look. It felt so vacuous."

Blabbermouth transcribed a chat between Sixx and Brazilian entrepreneur Paulo Baron and music critic Regis Tade in which he shed light on his feelings about Vedder's unprovoked slamming of his band: "I'm not trying to be the guy that wrote (the Crüe song) 'Bastard' (from 1983's Shout At The Devil album), 'cause I'm not the guy that wrote 'Bastard'. I wrote that song about somebody that ripped us off. I am the guy that if you f*** with me, I will f*** with you back. And that's what that song is about. You take a swipe at my band; I'll take a swipe at your band. You try to hurt my family, which is my band; I will try to hurt you. That's not something to be proud about (laughs)."

Sixx explained that he and his bandmates were totally open to the grunge scene emanating out of the Pacific Northwest, recalling, "I remember going to MTV with (a copy of Nirvana's) Nevermind before it had come out. We were, like, 'Hey, you guys gotta check out this band. You gotta check out this band.' And they were bands that were coming. I remember having a cassette -- I think it was demos; it might not have been; it might have been early recordings -- for Rage Against The Machine, and I remember telling everybody about that."

He went on to say, "We've never been afraid to embrace music changing because that's the whole idea behind music. If you listen to 'Too Fast For Love' and then you listen to 'The Dirt', you're, like, 'Well, it's the same band, but it has grown.' So we never had a problem with that. My only thing is, you wanna take a crack at my band, I'm probably gonna say something back. But what I don't understand is why's the guy even talking about my band? He's a successful guy."

Nikki Sixx added, "Listen, let's face it: the guy flies around in private jets; he lives in a mansion in a gated community; he sells out stadiums; and then he dresses at the thrift store and tries to pretend some guy in the '90s. Don't take a swipe at my band, dude. I mean, I'm at least being honest."

Alice In Chains And Breaking Benjamin has announced Summer/Fall 2022 U.S. tour with Bush. The 30 city tour kicks off on August 10th in the Burgettstown, PA and will make stops across the U.S. in Camden, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Seattle, Irvine, CA and more before wrapping up in Mansfield at the Xfinity Center on October 8th.

Sean Kinney said about the tour: "We're looking forward to finally hitting the road again this summer. It's been too long and we can't wait to get outdoors and share a night of music with our fans again."

Tour dates:

Aug. 10 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake
Aug. 11 - Camden, NJ - Waterfront Music Pavilion
Aug. 13 - Syracuse, NY - St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview
Aug. 14 - Wantagh, NY - Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

Aug. 16 - Clarkston, MI - Pine Knob Music Theatre
Aug. 17 - Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Music Center
Aug. 20 - Council Bluffs, IA - Westfair Amphitheater^^
Aug. 22 - Milwaukee, WI - American Family Insurance Amphitheater
Aug. 24 - Tinley Park, IL - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - Chicago, IL
Aug. 27 - Englewood, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre^^
Aug. 29 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
Aug. 31 - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Sep. 02 - Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
Sep. 05 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sep. 07 - Wheatland, CA - Toyota Amphitheatre
Sep. 08 - Irvine, CA - FivePoint Amphitheatre
Sep. 10 - Phoenix, AZ - Ak-Chin Pavilion
Sep. 11 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater
Sep. 14 - Del Valle, TX - Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Sep. 16 - Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion**
Sep. 17 - Houston, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman**
Sep. 20 - Rogers, AR - Walmart AMP
Sep. 21 - Maryland Heights, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - St. Louis, MO
Sep. 27 - Raleigh, NC - Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
Sep. 28 - Alpharetta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
Sep. 30 - Tampa, FL - MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds
Oct. 01 - West Palm Beach, FL - iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Oct. 04 - Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion
Oct. 05 - Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live
Oct. 08 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center

** BUSH not appearing

Avril Lavigne's seventh studio album Love Sux has debuted in the top 10 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart, landing at #2 on Billboard's Top Album Sales Chart, Top Rock Albums Chart, and Top Alternative Albums Chart.

The album, which marks Lavigne's 6th Top 10 album on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, was released February 25th via Travis Barker's DTA Records.

Machine Gun Kelly wants BTS to play at his wedding to Megan Fox.

During the game "Burning Questions" on Monday's (March 7th) episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, he said he said that if he had to pick a boyband to play at his reception, he would probably pick NSYNC or BTS, adding that he had an in with the "Permission To Dance" group.

He told DeGeneres, "I met them at the Billboard Awards, they were, like, stoked to meet me. I think I have a better chance of getting BTS to come."

Slipknot's Corey Taylor has been sporting a new mask which he debuted for fans during the band's performance at the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma back in September. Taylor recently took part in a fan-oriented horror convention called Days of the Dead in Atlanta where he said that the new mask was actually created by a young Slipknot fan who "nailed it" from the beginning.

Blabbermouth.net reports Taylor said, "My new (mask is) pretty rad. I really sat down and tried to figure out . . . I worked with a guy named Conor Deless. He's a young kid; he's actually a fan. And I can remember laying out traits that I wanted to see and a lot of the stuff that inspired him. And when he sent me the preliminary sculpt — he didn't even sketch it out; he sent me a tiny sculpt — and it was so killer that I was, like, 'Yes. That's it.' I mean, he nailed it so quickly that I'd never . . . I've always had to go back and forth and do a bunch of tiny manipulations and changes and stuff, but he was so dialed in and he immediately got it that we were just, like, 'All right. Let's do this, man.' He drove in, did a mold of my head, and the rest is history."

Taylory replied "no comment" when asked if there had been any masks over the years that he "absolutely hated" and "couldn't wait to get off."

Slipknot will kick off the its Knotfest Roadshow Tour on March 16th in Fargo, ND with special guests In This Moment and Wage War.

After sharing a Weezer-approved cover of their 2001 hit "Island in the Sun" to social media last month, Morgan Evans received a video response from the band's front man, Rivers Cuomo, that blew his mind. On Thursday (March 3rd), Rivers took to his own social media to offer a new verse on Morgan's current single, "Country Outta My Girl." The comment section exploded with requests from fans for a full version of the song and on Friday (March 4th), Morgan released "Country Outta My Girl (feat. Rivers Cuomo)."

Rivers posted his performance on social media first on Friday writing, "I see your 'Island in the Sun' and I raise you a 'country outta my girl.'

Morgan shared the final collaboration on social media writing, "Rivers re-wrote the 2nd verse and chorus for this version and I think it's one of the most badass, weird and wonderful things I've ever been a part of! Shoutout to Rivers for lending his genius to this tune. I hope this puts a big smile on your face today . . ."

Morgan recently announced his own headlining show overseas, performing at the Lafayette in London on July 14th and marking his first UK show since 2019. He will join Brad Paisley for additional European dates.

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are reportedly moving back to the U.K. due to the high taxes in California. According to The UK Mirror, the two are returning to their U.K. home Welders House in Buckinghamshire. Ozzy said, "We are leaving LA. We are a bit sad. But the tax is getting too much. I am sad because I really, really like staying and living there.

He continued, "If they do the taxes better then I may come back. I do not know. I am taking my recording studio with me. I am going to build a barn there and make my own studio at Welders. I will still be making music and my band will come over."

He added, "I am taking my recording studio with me. I am going to build a barn there and make my own studio at Welders. I will still be making music and my band will come over."

Red Hot Chili Peppers have just dropped "Poster Child," the second single from their upcoming album, Unlimited Love. The album, which is set for release on April 1st, reunites the band with famed producer Rick Rubin.

In a new interview with Classic Rock magazine, the L.A. natives talk about the hair band scene that dominated the Sunset Strip as they were also making their bones in clubs around town. Flea remembered, "We were definitely against the hair-metal scene. We were, like, 'F*** them. We're the underground, art-rock, get-weird east side guys; those guys are just rehashing Aerosmith and Kiss.' In retrospect it was all petty bull***. A lot of those bands were f***ing great. Guns N' Roses was a great band."

Frontman Anthony Kiedis spoke about the difference between the Chili Peppers and the other bands coming up at the time: "We were a party band, but you have to have something to bring to the party. Flea was instrumental in saying: 'We have to be good, we have to write some new s***, we have to have something to move these people.' We always came fully loaded."

Flea explained, "There was a certain arrogance. A 'F*** the world, f*** the system, f*** the authority, f*** the powers that be, we're us and we're doing our thing our way, we're street kids' thing. We were going hard and being wild."

Kiedis added: "It didn't dawn on us that there was something other than selling out clubs and making people happy and being original."

Flea told us a while back that their love of music has kept the Chili Peppers going through good times and bad: "No matter what has happened, no matter how vulnerable and raw our pain, how much pain we went through or how much was good and we worked really hard and reaped rewards from it -- no matter what happened, we've always, like the thing that has remained really earnest and really humble is our love for music and our willingness to be students of music."

Jack White has released “Hi-De-Ho,” a collaboration with A Tribe Called Quest figurehead and artist and producer Q-Tip. This is the latest single from White's upcoming album, Fear of the Dawn, which is due out on April 8th.

The new single is joined by “Queen of the Bees,” featured on White’s second new album of the year, Entering Heaven Alive, which will be released on July 22nd. A limited-edition “Hi-De-Ho” b/w “Queen of the Bees” tri-color 7” will be available exclusively at Third Man Records Cass Corridor Detroit on Saturday, April 9th in celebration of both the album’s release and the start of White’s Supply Chain Issues Tour. 

In addition to the standard black vinyl version of Fear of the Dawn, five limited-edition vinyl variants have been announced: a midnight blue vinyl version with a screen-printed jacket available to Third Man Records Vault Members in the Vault Novelties store, astronomical blue vinyl at select independent record stores, moon glow white vinyl at Target, and a split moon glow white & astronomical blue LP with an 11”x11” screen printed poster and Third Man Records compilation CD at Rough Trade Records. An exclusive slip mat is also available with the album only at Urban Outfitters.